Add custom logger to msbuild

[wjwwood]

I did some research last night about getting colors out of msbuild since the output is really hard to read without it. But the best solution I could come up with is to make a custom logger for msbuild which outputs ANSI escape sequences rather than the normal Windows color system.

Combining this with the ANSI Jenkins plugin which I've already tested, should work nicely. Test is here:

http://54.183.26.131:8080/job/testing_ansi/10/console

Basically, ament build would need to build and provide the custom logger (a C# library) and pass it to msbuild. Here is a library someone put together that does just that:

https://github.com/abe545/strider-msbuild-logger/blob/5e64c710fcda3db7f9ae009f18a764216d5efb89/Logger.cs

AC:

• ament build builds this library if on Windows and then passes it to the invocations of msbuild.
• msbuild outputs ANSI escape sequences for colored text, allowing Jenkins or Cmder to process it.

This is obviously super low priority, but would be nice to have at some point.

[dirk-thomas]

Closing since the repo is archived.